Women’s support group Colabo parodied in upcoming porn release
October 13, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Japanese adult video studio Faleno is to release a porn parody of Colabo, an organization that helps women in need.
This has ignited a huge amount of attention this week, but the context requires some explanation for the uninitiated.
Colabo runs a shelter for victims of sexual and domestic violence called the Tsubomi Cafe, which is effectively a large pink bus. It can often be found in Kabukicho, which attracts young runaways and desperate women who may be drawn into prostitution or compensated dating.
In a very bizarre turn of events, the organization and its activities found themselves ...
Ex-porn star Shunka Ayami dating older boy band singer Ryoichi Tsukada
October 6, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
The former Japanese porn star Shunka Ayami is said to be dating the male singer Ryoichi Tsukada.
The 36-year-old Tsukada is a member of the boy band ABC-Z, which is part of the roster of troubled (and recently renamed and soon-to-dissolve) agency Johnny & Associates.
Ayami reportedly introduced Tsukada to her parents last month, and they have supposedly taken overseas trips together.
Weekly Bunshun claimed the scoop when earlier this week it published photos of the two together traveling by Shinkansen. They certainly make a glamorous couple.
Tsukada took a well-publicized break ...
The recent edition of Feti Fes in Tokyo was a packed event with the usual wide array of fetishes and subcultures.
The festival on September 17 had around 100 booths of both individual exhibitors and groups across five floors, showcasing ero-cosplay, debusen, zentai, and much, much more. Many of the women work as freelance porn stars and ero-cosplayers, though various subculture/fetish circles are also at the venue.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to attend in person due to other commitments that day, but fortunately DXBeppin-r.com could and has put together a nice photo report with portraits ...
Ex-gravure idol Chika Yuki to make porn debut in October
September 28, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
You might remember Chika Yuki (or Yuuki) (็ตๅใกใ) from back in the late 2010s.
The formidably busty gravure idol made her debut in 2014 (when she still at school) and enjoyed some initial success, but then left her agency and switched to another name -- Chika Takahashi -- in 2020, followed by yet another name -- Maiha Hinata -- in 2021.
All this seemed to suggest her gradol career was in free fall. Despite her obvious talents and assets that made her more than qualified for the job, it's a competitive industry that favors the flavor of the month for cover shoots and big gigs. She ...
Amateur porn producer arrested for posting uncensored content
September 25, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Japan's much-publicized, controversial new porn law that passed last year was ostensibly conceived to introduce safeguards against performer coercion.
Is it actually doing its job? It's perhaps too early to say, though many major adult video stars were publicly opposed to the legislation.
The newly established rules on contracts and paperwork quickly claimed its first victim, when a production firm executive was arrested in December for misleading performers and uploading uncensored material.
Concerns, though, were soon raised about the potential loophole in the law regard private and ...
Is porn newbie Koiki Nagisa actually a former Takarazuka Revue performer?
September 22, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
We have grown used to Japanese porn stars' prior careers as music idols, gravure models, and so on. What's often so exciting about their entry into adult video is that those worlds generally don't allow the women to have relationships publicly (because it spoils the illusion that you could date the idol).
This is similar with the Takarazuka Revue, a long-running all-female company that puts on musicals in Osaka and Tokyo. Some of the most famous actresses in Japan started off life as members of the company, though it is something of a closed eco-system, putting on a very particular type of ...
Why Japanese porn performers sometimes refuse to work together
September 20, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Aya Takanashi, the former porn star turned columnist on all things JAV, is back with another article about the porn industry.
This time, she's spilled the beans on why some performers have rules about which other performers they are willing to work with.
In her latest column for the monthly magazine Spa!, she enumerates some of the major reasons for why co-performers are "banned" by certain AV stars.
This is not insignificant, since while the AV industry is flooded with thousands of female performers, the number of men performing regularly is tiny. If you get on the bad side of one of ...
Japanese porn star Minato Maiha arrested in Hong Kong in vice ring raid
September 12, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Last year, police in Hong Kong cracked down on foreign sex workers, arresting several women including former Japanese porn star Noa Aizawa.
It's well known that active and former adult video performers do sex work. It can be especially lucrative to engage in such work outside Japan, particularly other parts of Asia, where JAV is immensely popular. If your career is flagging in Japan or you want a change of pace, you can enjoy a good lifestyle with affluent clients abroad.
It seems that situation in Hong Kong is much the same, with media reporting the arrest on September 5 of 11 members of a ...
Is retired porn star Yua Mikami dating two male singers?
September 11, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
The tabloids are all of a flutter over rumors that recently retired top porn star Yua Mikami (30) is sleeping with not one but two boy band singers.
According to the Weekly Bunshun, Kento Senga (32) of Kis-My-Ft2 spent around three hours at Mikami's apartment on the night of August 31. A few hours later, he was apparently followed by Kento Nagao (21) of Naniwa Danshi. The report ignited something of a Twitter firestorm in early September.
It's not the first time that Mikami has found herself at the center of such romance rumors. She was previously said to be dating singer Yuya Tegoshi and ...
Japanese porn star June Lovejoy launches Tokyo Love District
September 7, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Japanese adult video fans will probably already know who June Lovejoy is, one of the most successful foreign performers working in the JAV industry.
Lovejoy made their porn debut in early 2020. Not content to sit on her AV laurels, Lovejoy newest passionate project is now up and running.
They have launched a rival to Tokyo Kinky. Just kidding. Tokyo Love District is (in Lovejoy's words) an online "guide of Tokyo and Japan in general with a focus on people working in the Japanese adult industry, JAV industry members, fetishists, artists, models, and anyone that is working in the unseen scene ...